Nicholas Owen is a presenter with BBC News, appearing on BBC1’s Six O’Clock News, Ten O’Clock News, BBC Breakfast, and the Corporation’s 24-hour News Channel.
He rejoined the Corporation in March 2007. For well over a decade before that he hosted all ITN's major bulletins, including Channel Four News and News at Ten.
Nicholas Owen began his journalistic career on the Surrey Mirror in 1964 before moving to Fleet Street in 1968. He worked for the Evening Standard and the Daily Telegraph, then spent seven years with the Financial Times
In 1981 he switched to television reporting, joining the BBC in the North of England, covering general and industrial stories for both regional and national news and current affairs programmes. For many years he has hosted the Royal Television Society Awards for the Northern region.
He joined ITN as Channel Four News Business and Economics Correspondent in 1984. During the first Gulf War Nicholas presented the highly-acclaimed Midnight Special Programmes when they were launched on Channel Four. He anchored The Parliament Programme, Channel Four's first daytime political series, and presented ITV1's live programmes covering successive Budgets.
Nicholas was born in 1947. He has a close interest in transport matters, especially railways and light rail schemes. His publications include a history of the British trolleybus. He struggles to play golf and bridge, is married to a newspaper journalist, has four children - and four grandchildren.

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World Metro Rail Congress Day 1 @ 08:40

Chairman's opening remarks

Nicholas Owen / Chairman's opening remarks

Nicholas Owen, Journalist, Presenter & Rail Enthusiast,BBC

Nicholas Owen is a presenter with BBC News, appearing on BBC1’s Six O’Clock News, Ten O’Clock News, BBC Breakfast, and the Corporation’s 24-hour News Channel.
He rejoined the Corporation in March 2007. For well over a decade before that he hosted all ITN's major bulletins, including Channel...

Nicholas Owen / Keynote Panel: How can the rail industry fully embrace the digital revolution and bring us into the 21st century?

Nicholas Owen, Journalist, Presenter & Rail Enthusiast,BBC

Nicholas Owen is a presenter with BBC News, appearing on BBC1’s Six O’Clock News, Ten O’Clock News, BBC Breakfast, and the Corporation’s 24-hour News Channel.
He rejoined the Corporation in March 2007. For well over a decade before that he hosted all ITN's major bulletins, including Channel...

Mark Wild / Keynote Panel: How can the rail industry fully embrace the digital revolution and bring us into the 21st century?

Mark Wild, Managing Director,London Underground

Mark Wild joined TfL in June 2016 from Australia where he was Special Advisor to the Minister and Secretary of The State Government of Victoria. Just before that he was Chief Executive of Public Transport Victoria, the integrated transport authority based in Melbourne serving a population of some...

Ramon Azuara / Keynote Panel: How can the rail industry fully embrace the digital revolution and bring us into the 21st century?

Ramon Azuara, Director General,Renfe Pasajeros

Dr Ramón A. Azuara Sánchez is the Director General of Renfe Viajeros on the General Operations board of Renfe Group. With a Bachelors in Business Science, he has developed his career within Renfe, having started in 1983. Among other responsibilities, he has held the positions of Director of...

Mark Joseph / Keynote Panel: How can the rail industry fully embrace the digital revolution and bring us into the 21st century?

Mark Joseph, Chief Development Officer,Transdev

Mark Joseph is an accomplished business and civic leader. He has over 30 years of leadership experience in public and private transportation across the U.S., Canada, UK and Ireland, and South America. Mark was CEO of the Americas until July of 2017.On July 1, 2017, Mark became the new global...

Phillip Washington / Keynote Panel: How can the rail industry fully embrace the digital revolution and bring us into the 21st century?

Phillip Washington, Chief Executive Officer,Los Angeles Metro

In his position as LA Metro CEO, Washington manages an annual operating budget of $1.6 billion and is responsible for overseeing $15 billion in capital projects and providing oversight of an agency that transports 1.4 million boarding passengers on an average weekday, riding on a fleet of 2,000...

Leanne Redden / Keynote Panel: How can the rail industry fully embrace the digital revolution and bring us into the 21st century?

Leanne Redden was appointed executive director of the RTA in October, 2014. In her role as executive director, Redden heads the unit of local government charged with regional financial oversight, funding, and transit planning for the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra and Pace Bus and ADA...

Nicholas Owen / Closing keynote panel: How can we make sure that the urban rail investments that we make now will pay dividends for our cities in the future?

Nicholas Owen, Journalist, Presenter & Rail Enthusiast,BBC

Nicholas Owen is a presenter with BBC News, appearing on BBC1’s Six O’Clock News, Ten O’Clock News, BBC Breakfast, and the Corporation’s 24-hour News Channel.
He rejoined the Corporation in March 2007. For well over a decade before that he hosted all ITN's major bulletins, including Channel...

Leanne Redden / Closing keynote panel: How can we make sure that the urban rail investments that we make now will pay dividends for our cities in the future?

Leanne Redden was appointed executive director of the RTA in October, 2014. In her role as executive director, Redden heads the unit of local government charged with regional financial oversight, funding, and transit planning for the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra and Pace Bus and ADA...

Amy Harhoff / Closing keynote panel: How can we make sure that the urban rail investments that we make now will pay dividends for our cities in the future?

Amy has worked within the transport planning and economic policy sector for almost 15 years, leading agendas with the public and private sector, covering investment in a broad range of transport policy agendas and infrastructure programmes.As Director of Corporate Affairs at TfGM, her role is to...

World Metro Rail Congress Day 2 @ 09:00

Chair’s Opening Remarks

Nicholas Owen / Chair’s Opening Remarks

Nicholas Owen, Journalist, Presenter & Rail Enthusiast,BBC

Nicholas Owen is a presenter with BBC News, appearing on BBC1’s Six O’Clock News, Ten O’Clock News, BBC Breakfast, and the Corporation’s 24-hour News Channel.
He rejoined the Corporation in March 2007. For well over a decade before that he hosted all ITN's major bulletins, including Channel...